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🟠 ORANGESPICE 🟠

Orangespice appears as a fine orange powder that smells heavily of cinnamon. At low doses, orangespice becomes mildly addictive; At high doses, orangespice becomes fatally so. Consumed over a lifetime, orangespice adds years to your life and grants you insight into the future. Orangespice acts much like a disease and in some ways like a drug from the Book of Vile Darkness. Some creatures actively seek exposure to orangespice for its beneficial qualities, oblivious to the dangers. Others, especially those who live near areas high in orangespice, cannot help but become exposed to it, for good or ill. As long as you ingest a steady amount of orangespice in your diet, you suffer no ill effects. The following table outlines the effects of orangespice.

Frequency: This lists how often you must either consume a dose of orangespice or else make a Fortitude save. You set this frequency by the length of time between your previous 2 doses of orangespice, although you can never move higher on the chart (you cannot wean yourself off orangespice over time). Once you've established a frequency of use, you can only maintain that frequency, increase the frequency of use, or quit orangespice altogether. If your frequency of consumption falls between 2 of the levels on the chart, use the more frequent level. For example, if you consume 2 doses of orangespice 6 months apart, your frequency becomes 1 month, and you must thereafter either consume a dose of orangespice or make a Fortitude save every month.

Spell-Like Ability (CL): This indicates which spell-like ability you gain from the spice you consume, as well as the caster level of that ability. The spell-like abilities are cumulative, so you gain all of the spell-like abilities higher on the list. You may use a particular spell-like ability once per dose you consume, and you may not use any spell-like abilities if you don't consume spice (whether or not you make your Fortitude save). Fort DC: This is the DC of the Fortitude save you must make if you miss consuming a dose at the appropriate frequency interval. Number of Saves: This is how many Fortitude saves you must make in a row in order to break your reliance on orangespice. If you later take a dose of orangespice after making the appropriate number of saves in a row, your frequency reverts to its previous level and you must succeed at this number of consecutive Fortitude saves to quit again. Damage: The amount of damage you take if you fail a Fortitude save. Certain spells (such as restoration) can cure this damage normally, but no spell short of wish or miracle can prevent it from occurring. Lifespan Increase: Orangespice grants a longer life if you're exposed to it for your entire life. Your DM adds the indicated number of years onto your maximum age when he makes your maximum age roll.

ORANGESPICE EFFECTS

_________________________________________________ Frequency | Spell-Like Ability (CL) | Fort DC | Number of Saves | Damage | Lifespan Increase _________________________________________________

Year | — | 8 | 2 | 1d2 Wis | — Month | Guidance (1st) | 16 | 3 | 1d2 Wis + 1d4 Str | 10d2 years Week | Augury (3rd) | 24 | 4 | 1d2 Wis* + 1d4 Str + 1d6 Con | 10d6 years Day | Divination (7th) | 32 | 5 | 2d2 Wis* + 2d4 Str* + 2d6 Con | 10d10 years __________________________________________________

*Permanent drain, not temporary damage.

A dose of orangespice costs 500 GP and has no appreciable weight.

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🟠 ORANGESEER 🟠

Large Monstrous Humanoid Hit Dice: 8d8+16 (52 hp) Initiative: +11 Speed: 20 ft (4 squares), fly 10 ft. (clumsy) Armor Class: 20 (–1 size, –1 Dex, +4 natural, +8 dodge), touch 16, flat-footed 20 Base Attack/Grapple: +8/+12 Attack: Claw +7 melee (1d6) Full Attack: 2 claws +5 melee (1d6) Space/Reach: 10 ft./5 ft. Special Attacks: Psionics Special Qualities: Damage reduction 5/magic, future sight, immunities, orangespice dependence, spell resistance 19, tongues, uncanny dodge Saves: Fort +4, Ref +5, Will +8 Abilities: STR 11 | DEX 8 | CON 15 | INT 26 | WIS 15 | CHA 14 Skills: Concentration +13, Diplomacy +15, Gather Information +13, Intimidate +13, Knowledge (arcana) +19, Knowledge (geography) +19, Knowledge (psionics) +19, Knowledge (the planes) +19, Sense Motive +13, Spellcraft +21 Feats: Combat Casting, Improved Initiative, Spell Penetration Environment: Any land Organization: Solitary, band (1 Orangeseer + 4–6 1st-level warrior attendants), or guild ( 2–6 Orangeseers + 3–7 3rd-level warrior sergeants and 12–36 1st-level warrior attendants) Challenge Rating: 7 Treasure: None Alignment: Always lawful evil Advancement: By character class Level Adjustment: — This bloated creature appears somewhat humanoid, but its arms and legs seem vestigial compared to the immense bulk of its orange-skinned body. The strong scent of cinnamon assaults your nostrils. Their minds open to the possibilities of the future and the vast existences of the present, Orangeseers make dangerous assassins and spies. Only the wealthiest organizations can hope to maintain even one Orangeseer for long periods of time. An Orangeseer was once a humanoid who has since surrendered himself/herself to Orangespice's effects, making him/her wholly dependent on Orangespice but giving him vast powers beyond those of even daily dosage users. An Orangeseer looks like an impossibly bloated human whose atrophied legs can no longer support it but yet somehow do. An Orangeseer weighs about 1,000 pounds.

COMBAT

In combat, an Orangeseer tries to stay out of melee, using his/her psionics to blast his/her foes. If the fight begins to go against him/her, the Orangeseer grabs what Orangespice it can and uses Dimension Door or Plane Shift to escape.

Psionics (Sp): At will — Augury, Divination, Guidance; 3/day — Commune, Dimension Door, Touch of Idiocy; 1/day — Charm Person (DC 13), Daze Monster (DC 14), Greater Scrying (DC 19), Hold Person (DC 15), Plane Shift (DC 19), Suggestion (DC 15). Caster level 13th. The save DCs are Charisma-based.

Future Sight (Su): An Orangeseer constantly sees several possible futures simultaneous with its view of the present. This Ability grants the Orangeseer a dodge bonus to Armor Class and an Insight bonus on Initiative rolls equal to its Intelligence Modifier (usually +8). Immunities: The Orangeseers are immune to mind-affecting effects, disease, and poison. Orangespice Dependence (Ex): An Orangeseer must use Orangespice hourly. Because of its extreme reliance on Orangespice, it automatically fails all Fortitude saves related to Orangespice. Uncanny Dodge (Ex): An Orangeseer retains its Dexterity bonus to AC (if any) and any dodge bonuses to AC even if caught flat-footed or attacked by an invisible creature.

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🟠 SANDWORMS 🟠